2024 VOC Jubilee conference
The VOC Jubilee conference was a great success! The Jubilee Conference took place November 21-22, 2024 at the IVWS estate in Leusden, The Netherlands. The programme featured top speakers in ordination and classification and covered theoretical developments as well as all areas of application (ranging from chemometrics to ecology).
Programme
| Thursday, 21 November 2024 | |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Arrival (11:00) and Welcome (11:25) |
| 11:30 – 12:15 | Fred van Eeuwijk (WUR) – Modelling of Genotype by Environment by Management Interactions |
| 12:15 – 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 – 15:00 | Marieke Timmerman (RUG) – Statistical Modelling Approaches to Derive Norms for a Psychological Test |
| Eyke Hullermeier (LMU Munich) – Uncertainty Quantification in Machine Learning: From Aleatoric to Epistemic | |
| 15:00 – 15:45 | Coffee Break |
| 15:45 – 18:00 | Sanwouly Marlene Yao (RU) – Handheld Spectroscopy for Quality Assessment in the Chemical industry (Student Presentation Award Winner) |
| Bert van der Veen (NTNU) – From Model-based to Hierarchical Ordination in Community Ecology | |
| Katrijn van Deun (TIU) – Easy Analysis of Complex Data: Regularized Multigroup Approximate Exploratory Factor Analysis | |
| 18:00 – | Drinks (18:00) and Dinner (19:00) |
Friday, 22 November 2024 | |
| 07:00 – 09:00 | Breakfast |
| 09:00 – 10:30 | Marina Cocchi (Modena) – Developing Locally Weighted Multiblock Approaches for Real Time Quality Prediction in Latent Variable Multivariate-based Process Monitoring |
| Iven van Mechelen (KU Leuven) – Redeeming at Last the Classipedia Promise: Onset of a Conceptual Outline Map to Get a Hold on the Jungle of Cluster Analysis | |
| 10:30 – 11:15 | Coffee Break |
| 11:15 – 12:45 | Andreas Alfons (EUR) – Robust Correlation Estimation with Discrete Rating-scale Data |
| Alberto Ferrer (València) – Multivariate Six Sigma for Industry 4.0 | |
| 12:45 – 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Yves Rosseel (Ghent) – The Structural-after-measurement (SAM) Approach to SEM |
| Jeanine Houwing-Duistermaat (RU) – Statistical Integration of Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Omics Datasets | |
| 15:30 | Closing |